As Honda production affected by West Coast ports labor disputes returns to normal, Volkswagen's East Coast shipments have been delayed. Frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall have been slowing operations at the automaker's Davisville, R.I., port since January, said Mark Boucher, senior manager of

DETROIT -- Booming demand for General Motors' pickups and SUVs in February helped ease the sting of a 21 percent drop in car sales. Overall, GM sold 231,378 light vehicles last month, up 4.2 percent from a year earlier. Sales to individual buyers rose 1 percent while deliveries to fleet customers

Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda and Volvo all have something in common today besides the fact that they were once owned or controlled by Ford Motor Co. All three are starting to blossom again now that they have developed their own unique vehicle architectures, powertrains and technologies, and as ...

DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. posted its eighth U.S. sales decline in the past 14 months, allowing Toyota Motor Sales to overtake it for the first time in six months. But the automaker said retail sales of the F-150 rose 7 percent and that average transaction prices for the pickup rose $2,000 from a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -- Daimler is not afraid of new competitors from the technology and telecoms industries such as Google and Apple, CEO Dieter Zetsche said. "There is tremendous opportunity in the convergence of the West Coast tech industry and the auto industry with its huge technological depth,"

Lexus revealed the aggressively styled LF-SA subcompact concept at the Geneva auto show today. If built, the model would compete against the Mini hatchback and Audi A1 in Europe's entry-premium segment. "The SA stands for small adventurer. It's the most compact Lexus ever," said Alain Uyttenhoven,

Most automakers posted modest U.S. sales increases in February amid signs that severe winter weather in much of the country crimped demand more than previously forecast. Fiat Chrysler said U.S. sales rose 5.6 percent last month, its smallest increase in more than a year. Hyundai was up 7.2 percent,

GENEVA (Reuters) -- Volkswagen is not the ideal candidate for a tie-up with Fiat Chrysler, the CEO Sergio Marchionne said today, adding he was exploring various merger and acquisition options. Speaking to reporters at the Geneva car show, Marchionne said he had an ideal partner in mind for Fiat ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Kobe Steel Ltd., supplier of aluminum sheet to half of Japan's auto industry, is considering building a 100 billion yen ($832 million) plant in the U.S. to expand sales to Japanese carmakers operating in North America. The prize is an expected 10-fold increase in demand for ...

GENEVA (Bloomberg) -- Porsche plans to buy a 25 percent stake in a German carbon fiber producer, widening access to the lightweight material used in its top-end sports cars. Porsche and Capricorn Composite GmbH, a supplier of components for the LMP1 and 918 Spyder models, are targeting completion

DETROIT -- Strong sales of Jeeps, Ram pickups and the Chrysler 200 pushed Fiat Chrysler sales up 6 percent in February. FCA US reported sales of 163,586 vehicles in February , its 59th consecutive month of year-over-year sales increases in the United States. Jeep sales again led the company's ...

GENEVA (Bloomberg) -- Auto executives are taking seriously the prospect that Apple Inc. and Google Inc. will emerge as competitors even as they consider partnering with the two. "If these two companies intend to solely produce electric vehicles, it could go fast," Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn

GENEVA (Reuters) -- Europe's carmakers are benefiting from robust demand for passenger cars in most of the region although the slumping Russian market continues to cast a shadow, making forecasts increasingly difficult, Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann and Volkswagen Group boss Martin Winterkorn said.

GENEVA (Reuters) -- Aston Martin today announced plans for an SUV-styled crossover that may draw more heavily on its partnership with Daimler, as the UK supercar maker confirmed moves to raise more capital and expand into new vehicle categories. Aston has secured about 150 million pounds ($230 ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Railroad companies are struggling to keep up with surging U.S. demand for trucks and SUVs, frustrating Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. The shortage of rail cars is particularly acute for double-deckers big enough to fit taller trucks and SUVs stacked on top of one ...

BERLIN (Reuters) --andnbsp;New-car sales in Germany rose 6.6 percent in February and are heading for a modest gain this year compared with 2014 levels. Germany joined France, Italy and Spain in posting increases in car sales last month. German vehicle registrations were 223,254 last month, ...

GENEVA -- Bentley unveiled the EXP 10 Speed 6 concept for a two-seat luxury sports car that it says may join its lineup in the near future. The EXP 10 shows how the brand's styling will evolve to become sportier and more emotionally appealing, Bentley said. If approved, a production version of the

GENEVA -- Infiniti said it will target younger affluent customers with its QX30 compact crossover. Infiniti unveiled a concept for the crossover here Monday on the eve of the Geneva auto show. The production version will be "highly influenced by the sleek concept," Roland Krueger, Infiniti CEO, ...

FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen previewed a coupe-styled sedan at the Geneva auto show that is set to become a production model to boost the brand's image and attract customers from cars such as the Mercedes-Benz CLS. Klaus Bischoff, head of design for the Volkswagen brand, said the Sport Coupe Concept ...

With Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s purchase of the Van Tuyl Automotive dealership group materially complete, Warren Buffett already is looking toward how to expand his company's dealership holdings. His aspirations for growth are big. In his annual letter to shareholders, released on Saturday, the ...

GENEVA -- In one of those uncanny coincidences, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met at the Hotel President Wilson here Monday to discuss the ceasefire in the Ukraine. A few hours later, Ford Motor Co. held its pre-Geneva show reception at the same ...

Automakers don't overreact to international tensions and currency fluctuations. They're playing the long game, making decisions that many times will be in place for decades. That's why the comments coming from auto execs on the verge of the Geneva auto show are so striking. They indicate that, ...

GENEVA -- Toyota Motor Corp. expects to increase its sales volumes in the European Union this year by three times its forecast for market growth, but doesn't see pricing pressure easing in this highly competitive region. Toyota sees its EU sales growing by 2 percent to 2.5 percent in 2015, compared